tender-heartedness
Soft, caring nature
Tender-heartedness is the quality of being easily moved to sympathy, compassion, or emotional sensitivity.
Someone with tender-heartedness feels others' pain acutely and responds with gentleness: Her tender-heartedness made it impossible to pass a homeless person without offering help.
The trait suggests vulnerability alongside warmth—a heart unguarded against the world's sorrows.
Considerate, caring disposition
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- caringShowing kind concern
warmth · generosity · charity · pity · forgiveness · leniency · grace · humaneness
Yielding to gentle pressure
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
- warmthHeat you feel
- mildnessGentle, moderate quality
delicacy · soothing · patience · tactfulness · meekness · docility · placidity · calmness
Mental comprehension of something
- connectionA joining or relation
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
perceptiveness · concern · solidarity · supportiveness · receptiveness · fellow-feeling · open-heartedness · relatability
Openness to harm
- emotionalityCapacity for strong feelings
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- impressionabilityEase of being influenced
- opennessQuality of being accessible
fragility · susceptibility · touchiness · rawness · permeability · reactivity · responsiveness
kindness
Considerate, caring disposition
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
caring · warmth · generosity · charity · pity · forgiveness · leniency · grace · humaneness · solicitude
softness
Yielding to gentle pressure
mildness · delicacy · soothing · patience · tactfulness · meekness · docility · placidity · calmness · graciousness
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- connectionA joining or relation
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
sensitivity · perceptiveness · concern · solidarity · supportiveness · receptiveness · fellow-feeling · open-heartedness · relatability · responsiveness
vulnerability
Openness to harm
- emotionalityCapacity for strong feelings
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- impressionabilityEase of being influenced
openness · fragility · susceptibility · touchiness · rawness · permeability · reactivity · responsiveness
- compassionsympathy, empathy, caring, kindness, warmheartedness
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
tender-heartednesshard-heartedness
Lack of sympathy
callousness · cold-heartedness · heartlessness · unfeelingness · insensitivity